The Last Treasure
10 best books like The Last Treasure (Janet S. Anderson): Remembering Mrs. Rossi, Shakespeare's Spy, Who Comes with Cannons?, Evvy's Civil War, The Tamarack Tree, Rodzina, A Perfect Gentle Knight, Overboard, My Daniel, Harry the Poisonous Centipede: A Story to Make You Squirm
| Author | Amy Hest |
| ISBN | 0763621633 |
Mementos from her mother's students help a young girl to grieve in a middle-grade novel by award-winning author Amy Hest.
Eight-year-old Annie lives in a sunny apartment in Manhattan with her father, Professor Rossi. Life would be pretty good if only Annie didn't so achingly miss her mother....
| Author | Gary L. Blackwood |
| ISBN | 0142403113 |
Things are disappearing mysteriously from Will Shakespeare's acting company, and it looks like an inside job. Everyone's eyes are on Widge, the orphan boy turned actor, and former thief. Widge knows better than anyone that Shakespeare's plays must be protected at all costs. In order to prove his innocence...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0688110282 |
When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being waged to end this inhuman institution. Then one day, a runaway slave takes...
| Author | Miriam Brenaman |
| ISBN | 0399237135 |
On her fourteenth birthday in June of 1861, spunky Evelyn Chamberlyn finds herself stuffed into a corset, a dress with hoops and a hairstyle so ornate she calls it the Edifice. It is time for her to be introduced to society-no more climbing fences and jumping into streams. She is expected to be a lady now....
| Author | Patricia Clapp |
| ISBN | 0140324062 |
Orphaned at thirteen, Rosemary Leigh was transplanted from England to Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1859. Four years later, to distract her from her fear as cannonballs batter the besieged city, Rosemary writes about what she has been through.While she has been growing up, enjoying the social pleasures...
In 1881, 12-year-old Rodzina Clara Jadwiga Anastazya Brodski wishes she didn’t have to board the orphan train in Chicago. But she has no home, no family, and no choice. Rodzina doesn’t believe the orphans are on their way out West to be adopted by good families. She’s sure they will become slaves...
| Author | Kit Pearson |
| ISBN | 0670066826 |
Kit Pearson’s long-awaited new novel tells the story of the six Bell children, each of them coping in various ways in the aftermath of their mother’s death. Set in the 1950s and seen through the perspective of the middle child, 11-year-old Corrie, Pearson’s story illustrates how a rich fantasy...
| Author | Elizabeth Fama |
| ISBN | 0553494368 |
One moment of rashness, and fourteen-year-old Emily Slake finds herself amid hundreds of panicked and drowning people in the dark ocean waters off Sumatra. Miles from shore without a life vest, she resolves to survive. But in facing the dangers of the ocean, the desperation of her fellow survivors,...
| Author | Pam Conrad |
| ISBN | 0064403092 |
"All I want to find is one dinosaur," Daniel was saying. "And I'll find it right here. Like I do all my fossils." Wandering through the Natural History Museum with her grandchildren, Julia Creath feels the presence of her dead brother, Daniel, she remembers a time when fossil fever hit everyone, old and...
| Author | Lynne Reid Banks |
| ISBN | 0006751970 |
Read to my daughters - ages 4 & 6. They both quite liked it. Nearly every chapter ended with a cliffhanger of sorts and it drove my daughters crazy when I put down the book without reading "one more chapter!"
As a child, I spent a couple of years living in a tropical country with poisonous centipedes....
| Author | Katherine Roberts |
| ISBN | 1717270514 |
Welcome to a world from another time -- where legendary half-creatures still exist. A world where nature itself can be controlled by unearthly music. A world where the forces of good and evil are held in harmony by the Singers who have mastered the secret Songs of Power. A world on the brink of destruction,...
| Author | Marilyn Sachs |
| ISBN | 0140383212 |
Everybody in Fran Ellen’s class knows her name. They know that she sucks her thumb and that she smells bad. But they don’t really know anything important about her.
They don’t know that she lives in two houses. One is with her brothers and sisters and sick mother. There is no father in that house,...
| Author | Carol Matas |
| ISBN | 1551436248 |
Rose's idyllic existence in sixteenth century France is destroyed when her father dies, and her mother--a midwife and healer to half the families in the town--is arrested and accused of being a witch. When her mother begs Rose to save herself, Rose must weigh the terror of death against the pain of life...
| Author | Katrin Hyman Tchana |
| ISBN | 0823419991 |
This celebration of feminine power, beauty, and complexity tells the stories of ten goddesses from cultures the world over. There is tremendous variety in this volume including the stories of Kuay Yin, the compassionate Buddhist goddess; Durga, the fierce Hindu warrior goddess; lx Chel, an ancient...
| Author | Margaret Bechard |
| ISBN | 1596430583 |
Jack knows who belongs out in the Black. And who doesn't -- until Kit comes walking into the pub and changes everything he believes about the Black, about the people who live there, about what it takes to be a human being. Margaret Bechard set out to write an adventure story with laser guns ad spaceships....
| Author | Catherine Thimmesh |
| ISBN | 0618507574 |
Here is a rare perspective on a story we only thought we knew. For Apollo 11, the first moon landing, is a story that belongs to many, not just the few and famous. It belongs to the seamstress who put together twenty-two layers of fabric for each space suit. To the engineers who created a special heat shield...
The Giver meets The Uglies
Miri lives in the futuristic world of Noveskina where 15 year olds reveal their "talent" to the community. After your talent is displayed, you receive a mask over your face which - you are told - is to help you become an adult, but really just controls your talent. In Noveskina,...
| Author | Ann Rinaldi |
| ISBN | 0152167889 |
How could Lizzy Enders's father abandon her at a girls school run by nuns? She's surrounded by Catholics--but she's Methodist! Shunned by the other boarders, Lizzy befriends a wandering carpenter named José, who with just three tools--and unflagging faith--builds an elaborate spiral staircase...
| Author | Mary Downing Hahn |
| ISBN | 0380723557 |
The Secret: Everybody in Jessica's English class makes fun of Daphne. She never says a word to anyone -- just walks around with her nose in a book, with her long straggly hair hanging over her face. Now the worst thing has happened. The teacher has assigned Jessica to be partners with Daphne in the Write-A-Book...
| Author | Joan Bauer |
| ISBN | 0142404276 |
Tree, whose name is actually Sam, is the tallest 7th grader in his class. Actually he's the tallest person in his entire school and he just seems to keep growing. While dealing with his parents' recent divorce, Tree works with his grandfather--helping him with his rehabilitation after having his leg...
| Author | Kathryn Reiss |
| ISBN | 0152049258 |
Something is terribly wrong with Connor's mom--she keeps slipping into bizarre trances. Connor suspects that the key to his mom's strange behavior is an old art book filled with paintings of a woman who looks exactly like her. But the artist who created those paintings died before his mom was even born.
Connor...
| Author | Claudia Mills |
| ISBN | 0786816724 |
Determined to shake off her reputation as a nerd, Lizzie Archer puts on a new face at the start of seventh grade. She exchanges her flowing lace dresses for jeans and tank tops, feigns dumb in math in a misguided attempt to impress a boy, abandons her beloved poetry-writing and imitates the guy-pleasing...
